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Edith Wharton

Matters of Mind and Spirit

By: Carol J. Singley

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Edith Wharton

Matters of Mind and Spirit

By: Carol J. Singley

A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and short stories of Edith Wharton, first published in 1995.

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Cambridge University Press

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052164612X

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9780521646123

Adopting America

Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature

By: Carol J. Singley

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Adopting America

Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature

By: Carol J. Singley

American literature abounds with orphans who experience adoption or placements that resemble adoption. These stories do more than recount adventures of children living away from home. They tell an American story of family and national identity. In narratives from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, adoption functions as narrative event and trope that describes the American migratory experience, the impact of Calvinist faith, and the growth of democratic individualism. The roots of literary adoption appear in the discourse of Puritan settlers, who ambivalently took leave of their birth parent country and portrayed themselves as abandoned children. Believing they were chosen children of God, they also prayed for spiritual adoption and emulated God's grace by extending adoption to others. Nineteenth-century adoption literature develops from this notion of adoption as salvation and from simultaneous attachments to the Old World and the New. In domestic fiction of the mid-nineteenth century, adoption also reflects a focus on nurture in childrearing, increased mobility in the nation, and middle-class concerns over immigration and urbanization, assuaged when the orphan finds a proper, loving home. Adoption signals fresh starts and the opportunity for success without genealogical constraints, especially for white males, but inflected by gender and racial biases, it often entails dependency for girls and children of color. A complex signifier of difference, adoption gives voice to sometimes contradictory calls to origins and fresh beginning; to feelings of worthiness and unworthiness. In writings from Cotton Mather to Edith Wharton, it both replicates and offers an alternative to the genealogical norm, evoking ambivalence as it shapes national mythologies.

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Oxford University Press

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0199778884

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9780199778881

Creative Negativity

Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest

By: Carol Hanbery MacKay

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Creative Negativity

Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest

By: Carol Hanbery MacKay

Focusing on the early Modern and Victorian periods, the author finds covert revolutionaries in four familiar practitioners of a strategy she calls creative negativity: poet-photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), novelist-essayist Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919), activist-spiritual leader Annie Besant (1847-1933), and actress-writer Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952).

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310

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Stanford University Press

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0804738297

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9780804738293

Machine and Metaphor

The Ethics of Language in American Realism

By: Jennifer Carol Cook

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Machine and Metaphor

The Ethics of Language in American Realism

By: Jennifer Carol Cook

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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0415978351

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9780415978354

Subversive Silences

Nonverbal Expression and Implicit Narrative Strategies in the Works of Latin American Women Writers

By: Helene Carol Weldt-Basson

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Subversive Silences

Nonverbal Expression and Implicit Narrative Strategies in the Works of Latin American Women Writers

By: Helene Carol Weldt-Basson

Weldt-Basson (Spanish, Wayne State U.) investigates how seven Latin American women writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have used the concept of submissive silence in their works as a sign of women's rebellion against the passive silence imposed by patriarchy. Using different theoretical perspectives in each chapter, she demonstrates how Marta Brunet, Maria Luisa Bombal, Rosario Castellanos, Isabel Allende, Rosario Ferre, Laura Esquivel, and Sandra Cisneros have used silence thematically and stylistically through hyperbole, coding, irony, parody, and cultural symbol and how silence reflects different time periods and countries.

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Associated University Presse

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0838641725

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9780838641729

The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing

By: Jean Carol Griffith

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The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing

By: Jean Carol Griffith

An exciting addition to the ongoing debate about the place of regionalism in American literary history. American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous triad of race, class, and gender. The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing enters into the heart of an ongoing debate in the field about the significance of regional fiction at the end of the 19th century. Jean Griffith presents the innovative view that regional writing provided Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather with the means to explore social transformation in a form of fiction already closely associated with women readers and writers. Griffith provides new readings of texts by these authors; she places them alongside the works of their contemporaries, including William Faulkner and Langston Hughes, to show regionalism's responses to the debate over who was capable of democratic participation and reading regionalism's changing mediations between natives and strangers as reflections of the changing face of democracy. This insightful work enriches the current debate about whether regionalism critiques hierarchies or participates in nationalist and racist agendas and will be of great interest to those invested in regional writing or the works of these significant authors.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817316612

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9780817316617

A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English

Print and Electronic Sources

By: Sherri L. Brown,Carol Senf,Ellen J. Stockstill

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A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English

Print and Electronic Sources

By: Sherri L. Brown,Carol Senf,Ellen J. Stockstill

The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and continues today in a variety of forms (literature, film, graphic novel, video games, and other narrative and artistic forms). Unlike other recent books in the field that focus on certain aspects of the Gothic, this work directs researchers to seminal and significant resources on all of its aspects. Annotations will help researchers determine what materials best suit their needs. A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.

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253

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442277483

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9781442277489

Bristol

By: Harold Mitchener,Carol Mitchener

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Bristol

By: Harold Mitchener,Carol Mitchener

Bristol traces its roots to a grant obtained by Samuel Clift in 1681, William Penns establishment of an estate one year later, and to its location along prime transportation routes. Situated below the fall line of the river and along the main route for land travel, Bristol afforded direct access between Philadelphia and New York City. As more people and businesses started to call the new settlement home, Bristol began to find its place in history. Bristol is a pictorial journey to the roots of one of Americas oldest towns. The book beautifully illustrates its development from a countryside encampment, to the government seat of Bucks County, to the setting of major industry. The growth of Bristol is portrayed through the development of its municipal services, organizations, and entertainment facilities. Furthermore, these images attest to the way Bristol responded to conflict, from the Civil War to World War II, by providing ships, airplanes, and its own heroes. A remarkable collection of images from the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library and other sources tells the story of a truly unique place.

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134

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439610495

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9781439610497

The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook

More Than 200 Fibers, from Animal to Spun Yarn

By: Carol Ekarius,Deborah Robson

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The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook

More Than 200 Fibers, from Animal to Spun Yarn

By: Carol Ekarius,Deborah Robson

This one-of-a-kind encyclopedia shines a spotlight on more than 200 animals and their wondrous fleece. Profiling a worldwide array of fiber-producers that includes northern Africa’s dromedary camel, the Navajo churro, and the Tasmanian merino, Carol Ekarius and Deborah Robson include photographs of each animal’s fleece at every stage of the handcrafting process, from raw to cleaned, spun, and woven. The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook is an artist’s handbook, travel guide, and spinning enthusiast’s ultimate reference source all in one.

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Storey Publishing

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1603427112

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Adopting America

Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature

By: Carol J. Singley

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Adopting America

Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature

By: Carol J. Singley

A literary history that considers works by Cotton Mather, Ben Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and others to illustrate the relationship between adoption and nation-building in American culture.

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OUP USA

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0199779392

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9780199779390

A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton

By: Carol J. Singley

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A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton

By: Carol J. Singley

Edith Wharton, arguably the most important American female novelist, stands at a particular historical crossroads between sentimental lady writer and modern professional author. Her ability to cope with this collision of Victorian and modern sensibilities makes her work especially interesting. Wharton also writes of American subjects at a time of great social and economic change-Darwinism, urbanization, capitalism, feminism, world war, and eugenics. She not only chronicles these changes in memorable detail, she sets them in perspective through her prodigious knowledge of history, philosophy, and religion. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton provides scholarly and general readers with historical contexts that illuminate Wharton's life and writing in new, exciting ways. Essays in the volume expand our sense of Wharton as a novelist of manners and demonstrate her engagement with issues of her day.

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Oxford University Press

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0199727333

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9780199727339

Edith Wharton

Matters of Mind and Spirit

By: Carol J. Singley

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Edith Wharton

Matters of Mind and Spirit

By: Carol J. Singley

A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and short stories of Edith Wharton, first published in 1995.

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Cambridge University Press

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Adopting America

Adopting America

Creative Negativity

Creative Negativity

Machine and Metaphor

Machine and Metaphor

Subversive Silences

Subversive Silences

The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing

The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing

A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English

A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English

Bristol

Bristol

The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook

The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook

Adopting America

Adopting America

A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton

A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

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